⁶ This is what the Lord is commanding the daughters of Zelophehad: If they decide it’s a good idea in their opinion^[a] to get married only within the family of their father’s tribe, then let them get married ⁷ so that the inheritance of the Israelis won’t be turned over^[b] from one tribe to another. Each one has an inheritance from his own father’s tribe that the Israelis are to maintain. ⁸ Every daughter who is in possession of an inheritance from the Israelis is to marry someone from the families within her father’s tribe so the Israelis can retain possession of their ancestral inheritance. ⁹ That way, their inheritance won’t be turned over from one tribe to another, because the Israelis are each to maintain their ancestral inheritances.”

¹⁰ Zelophehad’s daughters did just what the Lord had commanded Moses ¹¹ for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah: Zelophehad’s daughters married their uncle’s sons.